Waitea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Corticiales |
Family: | Corticiaceae |
Genus: | Waitea Warcup & P.H.B. Talbot (1962) |
Type species | |
Waitea circinata Warcup & P.H.B. Talbot (1962)
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Species | |
Waitea agrostidis J.A. Crouch & Cubeta (2021) | |
Synonyms | |
Chrysorhiza T.F. Andersen & Stalpers (1996) |
Waitea is a genus of fungi in the family Corticiaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are corticioid, thin, effused, and web-like, but species are more frequently encountered in their similar but sterile anamorphic states. Several species are plant pathogens, causing commercially significant damage to cereal crops and amenity turf grass.[1][2]